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A renowned Catholic theologian who formerly served as head of Harvard Divinity School will return to campus in the fall—this time as a professor at the Kennedy School of Government.
The Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, who in 1999 became the highest-ranking Catholic administrator in the Divinity School’s history, will take a part-time position at the Kennedy School in September while retaining his current full-time post as president of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of...
When Hehir, a 1977 graduate of the Divinity School, succeeded Thiemann, he declined to take the title of “dean” or live in University housing in order to show that his first duty was to the Catholic Church.
The only other Catholic leader of the Divinity School, Rev. George W. MacRae, served as acting dean for several months in 1985 before dying of a heart attack at age 57.
Hehir left the school in 2001 to become president of Catholic Charities USA and teach at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.